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1、 Kim Ricketts: My name is Kim Ricketts, and Im here to introduce and welcome James Kakalios, who is visiting us as part of the Microsoft Research visitor research series. James is here today to discuss his new book, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics. Science has met more demands of science fict
2、ion than most people realize, thanks to quantum mechanics. Though we dont see the world of the Jetsons with flying cars, people getting to work by jet pack or Star Treks teleporters, yet, we do have smart phones, pocketsize computers and hybrid vehicles. Because of quantum mechanics, we may also see
3、 many more science fiction technologies become a reality. James is a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. He served as a consultant for the film Watchmen and won a regional Emmy Award for his role in the Science of Watchmen. He is the author of the critica
4、lly acclaimed The Physics of Superheroes. So please join me in welcoming James Kakalios to Microsoft. applause. James Kakalios: Thank you very much. Thank you for the introduction. Thank you all very much for inviting me and welcoming me. I must say the working title of my new book originally was th
5、e World Of Tomorrow and so its kind of a pleasure to come here, see the guys responsible for that. Actually Microsoft seems to be following me. Two weeks ago I was in New York for some media events and walking around Times Square at night seeing these huge throngs of people lined up. And what impose
6、 are concert are they going to? No, theyre waiting for the Connect to go on sale at midnight. So I assume that you just like give one out to the speakers, but laughter. So I want to talk about the The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, my new book. First let me give you a little bit of background.
7、How did a mildmannered physics professor get associated with comic book superheroes, SpiderMan, Superman in my day job Im a condensed matter experimentalist though I do basically solid state physics. Ive been doing this for over 20 years. Doing research on amorphous semiconductors, you know, this is
8、 amorphous silicon used in solar cells or flat panel displays. Done film transistors. Ive done a lot of work on studying electronic noise in these materials. For about ten years I studied sand piles. Sand was quite hot in physics there for a while. We call it granular media when we talk to the fundi
9、ng agencies. laughter. And most recently collaborating with professors in neurosciences using techniques that developed a semielectronic noise into sorted semiconductors and applying them to voltage fluctuations in the brain. But thats not why Im here. Im here because back in 2001 I created a freshm
10、an seminar class at that time University of Minnesota called everything I know about science I learned from reading comic books. Which my colleagues said explained a lot. laughter. This is a really physics class that covers everything from Isaac Newton to the transistor, but theres not an incline pl
11、ane or pulley in sight. All the examples come from superhero comic books and as much as possible those cases where the superheroes get their physics right. Now, obviously, you know, the super powers themselves are impossible, but once you grant a one time miracle exemption from the laws of nature, w
12、hat theyre showing doing with their powers is scientifically correct. I showed this cover here because this is actually a comic that I bought as a kid, even though I wasnt a big fan of Superman at the time because Superman is here visiting a college campus and I was just fascinated to find out what
13、life in college was going to be like. Even as a kid, back in the60s I knew that this part wasnt too accurate. But there are things here on the cover that, you know, as you all know turn out to be correct, namely all professors at all times always wear caps and gowns. laughter. And all professors are
14、 800 year old white men. But from this class then in May of 2002, I wrote an op ed that was published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune pointing out how a key scene in a classic SpiderMan comic book turns out to be a textbook illustration of Newtons laws of motion. I thought, well, the SpiderMan movie
15、 is about to open, the first one. And so this might be a good opportunity to get some science into the newspaper. The University of Minnesota put out a little press release saying, well, SpiderMans on the big screen but if you want to know about the science of superheroes, the person to ask is Jim K
16、akalios, he teaches this freshman seminar, blah, blah, blah. I should point out that theyve sent out press releases about me before, about my work on amorphous semiconductors or one over F noise. Result? Zero. You write one story about SpiderMan, however, and the movie opened on Friday, the on end appeared on Friday. By money was getting c
